Shukhov Tower
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Shukhov Tower in Moscow / Шуховская башня
«Lord Foster fires up campaign to save rusting Russian radio tower» -
Architect brands structure as a work of 'dazzling genius' and inspiration that must be saved. From a distance it looks a bit like an upturned wastepaper basket, soaring over the concrete skyline of southern Moscow. The Russian capital's unique Soviet-era radio station was built in 1922 to spread the message of revolutionary communism around the world, but it is badly neglected and suffering from corrosion.
Now British architect Lord Foster has backed a campaign to save the 150-metre-high steel tower designed by the engineering genius Vladimir Shukhov. In an open letter, Lord Foster describes the tower as a structure of dazzling brilliance and great historical importance. Calling the structure Shukhov's masterpiece, Foster says it is the first major landmark of the Soviet period. Made up of a delicate lattice structure, the tower has five interlocking hyperboloids, each smaller in size, giving the impression of an inverted telescope. The revolutionary design is an inspiration for several of Foster's own landmark projects including the Gherkin, or Swiss Re building, in the City of London.
Lenin commissioned the tower to adorn his new Soviet Union during a period of romantic optimism. It was built between 1919-1922. Nearly 90 years on, it is badly neglected and suffering from corrosion. Russia's federal and local government are locked in dispute over which one of them should pay for repairs. Neither seems willing to stump up the cash.
In the meantime, Foster says, the structure is neglected and dying and without faithful restoration is doomed to fail. Several other leading European and US architects have backed Foster's letter, sent last month to the Moscow authorities. The art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon is another fan, and rode to the top in his recent BBC series on Russian art. Dixon-Smith hailed it as one of the great monuments of the constructivist post-revolutionary period.
Today Shukhov's grandson, also called Vladimir, said the tower near Moscow's Shabolovskaya metro station was inaccessible and closed to visitors. The idea was to restore it and turn it into a major Moscow tourist attraction, he said. Last year Russia's prime minister, Vladimir Putin, expressed his support for the scheme, but since then nothing had happened, Shukhov said.
The steel framework had not undergone any anti-corrosion treatment for 20 years, he said, and was at risk of falling down. We are in a very dangerous situation. There's been a lot of talk but no activity. You have the architectural equivalent of a diamond here, and yet nothing is being done to save it. Under the headline corroded masterpiece, Russia's Izvestiya newspaper contrasted official Russian indifference to the building's fate with Foster's vigorous campaign. Only foreigners care about its destiny, the paper said. Russia's state TV and radio station -- which owns the tower -- had no money and even less desire to save it, the paper added.
Shukhov was one of the greatest structural engineers of the early 20th century and the leading engineer of his era in Russia. He pioneered the use of new structural systems, creating hyperboloid structures of double curvature whose lightness and geometric complexity defy the imagination, even in the computer age. He also built Russia's first oil pipeline as well as numerous railway bridges.
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Shukhov Tower in Moscow
Natalia Melikova talks about the Shukhov tower in Moscow
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2016 Watch - Save Shukhov Tower, Russia
Despite its significance as a masterpiece of modern engineering, the Shukhov Tower, currently on the 2016 World Monuments Watch, is victim to an unfortunate history of alarming decline.
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Vladimir Shukhov - exhibition in MAMM, Moscow
The engineer, scientist, inventor and honorary member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov (1853-1939) is renowned for outstanding achievements in various areas of science and technology. For over half a century his diverse scientific, technological and engineering work from the late 1870s to the 1930s was hugely influential in the development of mechanics, power engineering, architecture, construction and transport in Russia. This exceptional scientist contributed to the formation and evolution in the 19th-to 20th-century Russia of a number of new fields: the oil industry, boiler making, pump building and the production of reservoirs, river tankers, steam-driven facilities, gas holders, etc.
Vladimir Shukhov made an important contribution to the construction of public and industrial buildings, as well as bridges, bridge cranes, caissons, nautical and airship hangars, hyperboloid lattice towers (pressure and observation towers), electricity transmission line masts, lighthouse beacons, warship masts, defensive port structures and other facilities. Shukhov created the famous hyperboloid lattice structure (patented in 1899), realised in the construction of gigantic supports for power transmission lines across the River Oka, lighthouses and water pressure towers. Shukhov designed and supervised the building of a multi-tiered gridshell tower for the Comintern Radio Station (height 150 m) in Shabolovka, Moscow, for the all-union radio transmission system (1919-1922). The unique Shukhov Tower is still functioning and serves as the symbol of television and radio transmission across Russia.
The geography of Vladimir Shukhov's activities is amazing and its scale is truly all-Russian. He undertook the equipment of the economy throughout Russia, from the capital cities to outlying regions, in the Urals, Siberia, the Transcaucasus, Ukraine, Turkmenia, etc.
In all spheres of his work Vladimir Shukhov not only produced his engineering solutions on a scientific basis, but also compared theoretical calculations with experimental data. As a result, he often succeeded in perfecting engineering designs, and the realisation of set technical tasks was carried out according to new, rational methods.
Given the critical necessity for economy in the use of metal in Russia, Vladimir Shukhov strove to build cheaply as well as durably, setting the goal of devising constructions based on a series of fundamental criteria for cost efficiency for the first time in practice.
Striking examples are provided by the celebrated radio tower in Shabolovka and several machine shops at the Vyksunsky Metallurgical Plant that were designed and built by Vladimir Shukhov more than a hundred years ago.
He was the first in the world to make use of a supporting steel gridshell for the construction of buildings and towers. Contemporaries regarded the technical achievements of Shukhov's systems as an original innovation, although the architectural possibilities of the new structures were unknown to them. While Russian architecture was forming an aesthetic attitude to the new forms of engineering or refusing to accept them, engineering creativity developed in line with a judicious understanding of the form and consequently of its utilisation.
Vladimir Shukhov introduced the single-sheet hyperbolic paraboloid of revolution to architecture when he created the first ever hyperboloid constructions (1896). The Shukhov hyperboloid towers that have been preserved are stunning not only for the originality of the engineering concept, but also for the grace of their consummate architectural form. Today gridshells facilitate the creation of buildings with very complex forms and are therefore used by such world-famous architects as Frank Gehry (USA), Paul Andreu (France), Santiago Calatrava (Spain), Renzo Piano (Italy), Nicholas Grimshaw (UK), Massimiliano Fuksas (Italy) and others. The translucent roof of the British Museum's inner courtyard and the cupola of the 30 St. Mary Axe Tower («the Gherkin») in London, the gridshell covering of the atrium in the DZ Bank building in Berlin, the hyperboloid air traffic control tower at Barcelona Airport, the gridshell of the theatre in Valencia, the gridshell roof of the Maritime Museum in Osaka, the double gridshell of the Beijing Opera Theatre and the hyperboloid gridshell television tower at Guangzhou were all built on the basis of Vladimir Shukhov's discoveries.
Harmonically combining the talent of a leading scientist with the intuition of a brilliant engineer, Vladimir Shukhov worked in the most diverse areas of science and technology. Everything he created was at the level of discovery and invention; everything was a breakthrough for its time. Many examples of contemporary architecture and construction that are striking for their innovation and scale originate from Shukhov's discoveries in the late 19th century. -
beneath the Shukhov Tower in Moscow
Beneath the Shukhov Tower in Moscow. Currently under threat of demolition, the tower is at the top of UNESCO's 'Endangered Buildings' list, and there is an international campaign to save it.
Шуховская башня на Шаболовке / Shukhov Tower in Moscow
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Shukhov Tower on the Oka River
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The Russia Tower, also known as Bashnya Rossiya, is a supertall mixed-use skyscraper in Moscow International Business Center, Moscow, Russia. It will have the height of 612 metres | 2,008 ft and 118 floors. The construction started in 18 September 2007 but unfortunately the construction stopped in 21 November 2008. The building cost over US$3 Billion. Russia Tower was proposed to be built on plots 2 and 3 of the Moscow International Business Centre in 1994, with the intention for it to be the world's tallest building with the height of 648 metres | 2,126 ft and 125 stories building.
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Comrade Hostel Moscow. Shukhov Tower Lecture
Comrade Hostel is a place to share your experiences about travel, Moscow and Russia with fellow travelers.
We are glad to invite you to a series of mini-lectures: short presentations with photos followed by a short discussion.
Our first lecture is dedicated to the Shukhov Tower - one of the most famous monuments of constructivist architecture. In our lecture you will learn about the history of this masterpiece of engineering art and the problems it faces today.
Speaker: Natalia Melikova - photographer and founder of The Constructivist Project
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Shukhov tower 3D
Shukhov tower on Shabolovka, Moscow, Russia. 3D model and interactive 3D application based on Unity3D.
Shukhov Tower | Henry Milner Reconstruction Studio Timelapse
Located in Moscow, the original 160-meter-high structure was designed by engineer Vladimir Shukhov and remains an iconic feature of the city's skyline. The tower's completion in 1922 was hailed as a landmark in architectural history, drawing comparisons to the work of Gustave Eiffel and attracting the photographic prowess of Aleksandr Rodchenko. Milner's six-part scale model will give UK audiences a rare chance to appreciate first-hand the remarkable geometry, intricate latticework and inherent beauty of the structure's design. Complementing the display will be digital prints illustrating the workings of the model making process and a selection of historical photographs.
Despite its iconic status the tower currently faces demolition and an appeal to save it is supported by an array of prominent architects, engineers and arts professionals including Rem Koolhaas, Sir Nicholas Serota and Lord Norman Foster. The preview of the Shabolovka Tower model at GRAD will emphasise not just the importance of the tower to Russian culture but also Shukhov's invaluable contribution to the history of design on an international level.
Верхние торговый ряды на Красной площади в Москве / Upper trading rows on Red Square in Moscow
Верхние торговый ряды на Красной площади в Москве: 1894
Upper trading rows on Red Square in Moscow: 1894
Music:
Au Couvent - Andante religion form the Petit Suite by A. Borodin
With the façade extending for 794 ft (242 m) along the eastern side of Red Square, the Upper Trading Rows were built between 1890 and 1893 by Alexander Pomerantsev (responsible for architecture) and Vladimir Shukhov (responsible for engineering). The trapezoidal building features a combination of elements of Russian medieval architecture and a steel framework and glass roof, a similar style to the great 19th-century railway stations of London. William Craft Brumfield described the GUM building as a tribute both to Shukhov's design and to the technical proficiency of Russian architecture toward the end of the 19th century.
The glass-roofed design made the building unique at the time of construction. The roof, the diameter of which is 46 ft (14 m), looks light, but it is a firm construction made of more than 50,000 metal pods (about 819 short tons (743 t)), capable of supporting snowfall accumulation. Illumination is provided by huge arched skylights of iron and glass, each weighing some 820 short tons (740 t) and containing in excess of 20,000 panes of glass. The facade is divided into several horizontal tiers, lined with red Finnish granite, Tarusa marble, and limestone. Each arcade is on three levels, linked by walkways of reinforced concrete.
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13.03.2009 - Владимир Путин о Шуховской башне в Москве
Необходимость сохранения Шуховской телебашни подтвердил Владимир Владимирович Путин на встрече с Министром связи И.О.Щёголевым 13 марта 2009 года. О телебашне Шухова:
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